Reading Your Financial Aid AwardBy Emily WirthThe financial aid award is designed to lighten the financial burden of funding a college education, and to grant opportunity to those needy students who could not afford higher education otherwise. Your financial aid award for next year will arrive in your student’s GU email in late March or early April.Read Full Story

Origin of Gonzaga’s MascotEarly Gonzaga University sports teams were called the "Blue and Whites" or "the Fighting Irish" like the University of Notre Dame. However, after a football game in 1921 a reporter wrote that Gonzaga fought tenaciously like bulldogs. Thus, that description became the new mascot. Over the years, Gonzaga had numerous live bulldogs as mascots. The first one was named "Teddy Gonzaga," a tiny bull terrier. Another was named "Corrigan" after the daredevil aviator "Wrong Way Corrigan." Unfortunately this mascot died with five other dogs after being fed poisoned meat. "Finnegan McGinty the First" (Corky) replaced Corrigan in 1949. After Corky died, a local kennel donated a new mascot but that bulldog died four days later of an unknown disease. Another female dog was donated in April 1951. There was a contest held to name her. The name "Bullet" was chosen, and the winner received a carton of Chesterfield cigarettes.Text and photo provided by the Gonzaga University Archives.